A rare chance to see an early Makk film that has been called his best-but a very different Makk from the one we know well from Love and A Very Moral Night. The House Under the Rocks is a smoldering drama of high-strung passions which Makk orchestrates with consummate skill. A soldier returns, depleted from the war, to find his wife dead and his farm and child cared for by his sister-in-law. When he remarries, the sister-in-law, the proverbial hunchback, continues to haunt his life and threaten his happiness much like the boulders that hover over his house. "A modern fable...there is something elemental about The House Under the Rocks...: the high level of its emotions, its fatefulness, the grand beauty and assurance of its effects....Makk's story has a folkish air to it (that) we might expect to find in Grimm, rather than in a modern country in the modern age." (Bryan Burns)